The condensed schedules on page 5 list the Empire Builder, Western Star, Vista-Dome North Coast Limited, and Mainstreeter. It says nothing about domes on the Empire Builder even though they would be introduced on May 29, just a month after this timetable went into effect.

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Page 6 has condensed schedules for the California Zephyr and Burlington’s Kansas City-Billings train, once known as the Adventureland, as well as the Denver-Billings train. The schedule shows connections with both the Great Northern and Northern Pacific at Billings, but shows only one through sleeping car that went as far as Great Falls. Ironically, it went through Billings not to Kansas City, which would have been unique, but to Chicago even though the GN already had Great Falls-Chicago service.

The California Zephyr schedule also shows a schedule for those who might want to take the Royal Gorge route. Even though both the Denver Zephyr and Cal Zephyr arrived in Denver in time for people to catch the Rio Grande’s Royal Gorge, the schedule encourages people to take the Coloradan instead. This was bad advice as the Coloradan left Chicago more than four hours before the California Zephyr and 5-2/3 hours before the Denver Zephyr. Perhaps the Burlington feared that 45 to 55 minutes wasn’t enough time to transfer baggage between two trains, but more likely it was just trying to sell tickets on one of the last of its heavyweight trains.